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BUTTON SETTING INSTRUMENT.

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BUTTON SETTING INSTRUMENT.

No. 353,819. Patented Dec. 7, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERI- CANBUTTON FASTENER COMPANY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONN.

BUTTON-SETTING INSTRUMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 353,819, dated December'7, 1886.

Application filed February 18, 1886. Serial No. 192,437.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden, State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inButton Setting Instruments, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to hand-instruments for attaching buttons tofabrics or other goods by means of malleable pointed fasteners, theobject being to provide such an instrument having a button-fastenermagazine, from which the fasteners are automatically fed to the driverone at a time, as required for use.

To this end the invention consists in the combinations hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 is a top view of an instrument embodying my invention. Fig. 2is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3' is an elevation of the frontend, which is at the left hand in the preceding figures. Fig. 4 isasection in line a a, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a section in line b b, Fig. 2.Fig. 6 is a section in line cc, and Fig. 7 inline d d, 'Fig. 2. Fig. 8is a vertical longitudinal section through the entire instrument,showing the parts as standing ready to begin setting a fastener. Fig. 9is a side elevation of the forward part of the instrument, showing thefirst stage of the setting operation. Fig. 10 is a similar view showingthe second stage of said operation. Fig. '11 is a perspective view ofthe driver. Fig. 12 is a perspective view of the presser-slide. Fig. 13is a horizontal section in line c, Fig. 2.

Similar characters designate like parts in all the figures.

My improved button setting instrument comprises three principal partsacentral part or frame containing the magazine and having a handle, and apivoted member provided with a handle and operating the driver, and apresser-slide. The frame is designated by F, the pivoted member by A,and the presserslide by B. Said frame is suitably formed to receive thepivot-screws 2, on which the member A has its bearing, and has guide 30,fitting grooves 31 of slide B. The magazine is a T- shaped groove, G,formed in the frame, and it opens at the front end into the verticaldriverchannel 4, Fig. 8, the front side of which is (No model.)

formed by slide B. The driver Dis constructed to slide in said channel,and has one or more rack-teeth, 8, fitting into notch 9, formed inmember A. Astout spring, 10, serves to throw down said member and thedriver until this is stopped by hook 11, with its point 12 just belowgroove G. Slide B is operated from the driver by means of some frictiondevice-as, for instance, the spring-washer 20 and screw 21-adjustablyfixed in the driver, as will be fully understood by referenceto Fig. 8.Frame F has adie-holding arm, H, which carries at its front end theordinary setting-die, E, whose concave depression '16 stands directlyover driver-channel 4:.

The magazine-groove is supplied with the button-fasteners through anopening, 15, Figs. 2 and 8, the instrument being inverted for thepurpose. A sliding follower, N, pushes the fasteners along in saidgroove. Said follower is thrown forward by a spring, S, contained withina tubular extension or case, M, extending rearward from frame F. Thiscase has a slot, 13, and a common lantern catch, 17, (shown in dottedlines in Fig. 1,) for the passage and locking of the follower-handle J.The follower being drawn back of opening 15 within the round bore ofcase M, it may be turned in that bore to bring handle J intoengagement-catch 17, when groove G may be filled by putting into it, byhand, a few fasteners at a time. The groove being suflici'entlysupplied, the follower is unlocked, and the spring pushes it forwardagainst the fasteners, and the foremost one of these into thedriverchannel above driver D, ready to be set into a fabric orshoe-upper.

The operation ofthe instrument will be read= ily understood from thedrawings and preceding description, being as follows: The magazine beingproperly loaded, and the instrument as in Fig. 2, the handles 5 and 6 ofmembers F A are grasped by the operator, who then places under thesetting-die a piece of fabric, 20, or other goods to which a button isto be attached. On now closing together the hanforcing up the driver Dand the foremost fastener, 18, Fig. 8, up through channel 4, through thefabric and the button-shank, into depression 16, which turns thefastener-point over into a hook that in oloses'said shalnk. Thiscompletes the setting operation, after which the said members areallowed to resume their first positions, and follower N forces anotherfastener into channel .4.

The general arrangement and operation of the slide, magazine, anddriver-channel, the setting-die, and driver are substantially the sameherein as in United States Patent No. 311,033, granted to me January 20,1885, to which reference may be had for a more de-' tailed account ofthe fastening made by meansof the instrument.

In another application, Serial No. 191,363,

combination, in a button-setting instrument, of a magazine and a driverwhich are in some respects similar to those herein described. ThereforeI do not herein broadly claim the same.

Having thus described my invention, I-

claim 1. The combination, in a hand-instrument for settingbutton-fasteners, of aframe having a handle and a magazine and carryingthe setting-die, a driver-channel, substantially as described, driver D,and member A, operating said driver, and also having a handle,substantially as set forth.

. 2. The combination, in a hand button-set- I FRANCIS H. RICHARDS.

Witnesses:

FRANK H. PIERPONT, GEo. W. DRAKE.

